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During the Carnival period, in the past, people used to
entertain cheerfully themselves with music and folk dances, such
as pizzica-pizzica or tarantella. Those events were based on
dancings and comical games, together with a glass of wine.
According to the tradition, the Carnival calendar of events was
organized from thursday to thursday. There is the monks thrusday,
the priests one, the widows one, the cuckolds or married ones
and, in the end, the singles one, that is also said the mads
one. Shrove Tuesday was the last day of Carnival and people used
to spend this day in the streets, attending plays acted by
extempored actors. At night, there used to be the Carnival
funeral, represented by a puppet called mammòce de
Carnièle.
It had a funny and ordinary shape, it was made of straw and it
wore old dirty clothes belonging to the farmers. It lay over a
wood board and it went in procession held by four people
carrying torches. Someone pretending to be a doctor tried to
resuscitate it, even operating it. Unfortunately it was always
too late, its fate had already been decided..
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